JERUSALEM, Sept. 13 (Xinhua) — On Tuesday (Sept. 12), the annual report from Israel’s Ministry of Health came out. It reveals that smoking is responsible for approximately 8,000 deaths in Israel every year.
A report submitted to the Israeli parliament outlines the country’s smoking situation in 2022, with the aim of making the topic a public concern. and emphasizes the need to combat smoking and the severe damage that results from it.
The above report reveals that 10 percent of those annual deaths are non-smokers exposed to cigarette smoke from other people. It said that about one in five Israeli adults smokes. Meanwhile, 64.5 percent of non-smoking adults had been exposed to cigarette smoke from their environment in the past year.
Additionally, the number of students in grades 5 through 4 who smoke at least one cigarette per day increased to 9 percent in 2022, compared with 4.8 percent in 2019 and 6 percent in 2021.
(Xinhua file photo: People walk in Hayargaon Park during the Sukkot holiday. in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Oct. 11, 2022)
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2023-09-13 06:46:57
